this fixed it for me

http://www.softwarepatch.com/utilities/ ... ition.html

found sound card driver that worked for me

http://www.softwarepatch.com/utilities/ ... ition.html

in same boat. did you get it sorted?

help! two problems 1) i've installed/re-installed a few times now. something i'm loading chews up the cpu (near 100%) for about a second every 5 seconds or so. whatever it is, doesn't appear as a process or task in the task manager. i think it's a driver off the supplied disk. anybody else experienc...

thank god for this thread/forum i thought i was going mad! i too have the maplin recommended hitachi 320 drive, spent i don;t know how many hours slipstreaming this that and the other (including sp3) into xp installation disks. the only help i got from the maplin 50p/min tech help line was that ther...